Numerical simulation of mixing by Rayleigh-Taylor instability and its fractal structures

Fractals

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 241-250

  Hasegawa, Susumu ^a   Nishihara, Katsunobu ^a   Sakagami, Hitoshi ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

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EID: 3142626893     PISSN: 0218348X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218348X96000339     Document Type: Article

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